A Florida man has been sentenced to two years of probation for throwing his dog into traffic.
Michael Lee Britton, 56, was sentenced after pleading guilty Wednesday to animal cruelty, resisting an officer without violence and assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Ocala police responded in November 2016 after a woman called to report a man had thrown a dog at her moving car. Britton said he did it because the dog had been pierced by an arrow, and he didn’t want the animal to suffer. Police found no such wound.
He has been in jail since his arrest.
Police say the Australian shepherd suffered internal injuries but no broken bones.